>I thought Ubuntu had a solution for my audio problems when it was said to be >specially packaged for multi-media and the only distribution with an >off-the-shelf RT kernel. Every time I run Rosegarden there is a warning >message that the kernel timing is not good enough. So I determined to >install the UBuntu Studio with the RT kernel. > >What happened ? It didn't recognize my Soundblaster Audigy. It is not clear >how to configure. > >Debian had it much better. > >Couldn't there be more agreement on audio configuration for Linux ? Is >anyone working on a standard ? Shouldn't they be ? > >How about an agreed upon place to specify which sound card to use ...and >which driver. > >Bob > I've just read these articles .. and well this all just frustrates me.. It took me a very short piece of time to learn... (way back 10 years ago)....Linux is not windows and Linux box is not an Apple box Linux is not a corporation that can control how everything will work. Apple controls the hardware it works on.. yet I've seen with many 3rd party audio devices... it doesn't work very well.. and just like every other OS MAC OS updates break the drivers for many of these devices. Windows again, works basically out of the box but suffers the same issues but never works really well....... Linux takes work... Your initial choice of distro may not work as you expected.... but with a bit of sweat and a bit of tears and possibly trialling a couple or more distros.... and here research is the best prevention to problems... before buying hardware research other users experience.. (that would apply to Windows, OSX and even your primary applications not just linux anyway). Once this work is done (as your experience with Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio and finally Debian shows) you should be left with a stable and reliable platform.. What I've noticed is with the distros that try to be "out of the box" this is where the problems seem to occur most. I see 2 main reasons for this... 1. They don't meet the users expectations... not everything is going to work right out of the box. This makes people upset. 2. Like Windows and OSX, they relinquish control from the user in order to achieve the "user friendly" label of not requiring much work.. but this means when work is needed, it is often harder to do. Another trap which I have also fallen in myself is being an early adopter of hardware.. Most hardware vendors are not involved in writing drivers for linux, this means it requires developers who are most often donating their time to develop them. The result is it takes longer for drivers to be released and stabilise (in most cases)... Buying the latest motherboard or laptop with the latest chipset will often result in pain .. most often with audio as there seem to be very few contributors relative to other areas... Part of me would love to see the Microsoft monopoly smashed by Open source... but the reality is Open source is by it's nature diverse with many options. It is also mainly the result of contributions... It has no head or tail has an almost insane number of different options... Which means commercially it probably can't do this.. However, some of us are or have been zealots and have told everyone we know linux is the best thing since sliced bread, this has resulted in many people believing that Linux is something it is not.... We really should be saying something a bit less glamorous... "Linux is like life.. you get out what you put in and nothing in life comes without work (for free)... but I've put in the work any it works fantastically FOR ME" _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
